The Annual April 1st Edition Is Nearly Here!

I don't have to tell you that the current circumstances we find ourselves in are anything but amusing… But through the toughest of times, I found a sense of humor to be quite the survival tool. One of the questions we had last week, was whether or not it was both worthwhile, as well as proper, to conduct this year's Annual April 1 edition. Over the course of 23 years, we've only skipped the April 1 edition once. That was a couple of years ago in the few days that had passed since my Father died. And while we expressed the fact (then) that we really didn't have much us of a sense of humor at the time, and really couldn't find much to laugh at, I still remember that while speaking at my Father's se

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Impossible Aerospace has announced a product called Air Support that it says will transform the world’s cities and the way they respond to emergencies. Impossible Air Support, the company said, is a turn-key program that lets cities dispatch drones directly to the scene of their 911 calls to improve emergency response times. Mounted on top of tall city buildings, the drones are controlled by police officers and firefighters from secure command stations within their departments. Once dep

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MVT Geo-solutions and Iris Automation have been granted the first BVLOS Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) by Transport Canada using only onboard Detect-and-Avoid (DAA). The approval was granted based on the utilization of Iris Automation’s DAA system, called Casia, which provides commercial drones with automated collision avoidance maneuvers. The waiver permits flights within the UAS Center of Excellence’s controlled airspace Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) test r

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ANN E-I-C Note: Folks... we gotta warn you... our Annual April 1st Editions are LEGENDARY -- and like EVERY YEAR, we intend that this WILL be our best April 1st Edition yet. Based on all the nonsense we've had to endure over the years (which we are duty-bound to lampoon), we certainly have good reason for that... so if you have any ideas of your own as to how to heighten the insanity, this is your CHANCE. We need YOUR ideas for how we might step up the insanity for 2020! I kid you not... as I look over all the stories we've already prepped, we are going to cause serious keyboard damage as people snort their soft drinks all over the place when they start reading thi

"I note that the document was signed by Legal, not Flight Standards. It's also possible that insurance companies may not acknowledge this document as binding." Source: James Viola, HAI president and CEO.

The state of confusion due to misleading information being sent to the brain from various sensory organs, resulting in a lack of awareness of the aircraft position in relation to a specific reference point.

FAA Air Traffic Control Operational Contingency Plans

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused the temporary closure of some air traffic control facilities around the country, and more could be closed in the future.